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* ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'': {{Parodied}}. 'Uncle' Lucius has been dying in one of the Bunkleyutz's back rooms for over thirty years! No one can bear to kick him out, even though he's not actually related to them --many a character has said, "I thought that he was ''your'' Uncle Lucius!"

'''Because this is a DeathTrope, expect unmarked spoilers ahead. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''

* Music/GangOfYouths: "Achilles Come Down" is about Achilles on the brink of suicide, with his self-hating conscience and the singer respectively inciting him to jump off the roof and trying to dissuade him of the idea. All seven minutes of song are spent this way. It's unknown whether Achilles commits the deed. On top of that, Achilles has given up life due to his lover Patroclus' death, which would make it a double case of this trope.

* Music/GangOfYouths: "Achilles Come Down" is about Achilles on the brink of suicide, with his self-hating conscience and lover Patroclus respectively inciting him to jump off the roof and trying to dissuade him of the idea. All seven minutes of song are spent this way. It's unknown whether Achilles commits the deed.

* Music/GangOfYouths: "Achilles Come Down" is about Achilles on the brink of suicide, with his self-hating conscience and lover Patroclus respectively inciting him to jump off the roof and trying to dissuade him of the idea. All seven minutes of song are spent this way.

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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Aunt May has been on the verge of death for four decades.

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Related to LongestPregnancyEver, another condition that lasts longer than it should. Might overlap with YourDaysAreNumbered, which is when a character knows they'll die. Contrast KillHimAlready and GetItOverWith, when TheHero stands over a defeated enemy, respectively causing other people or the villain to urge her to just eliminate the threat permanently. Compare InverseDialogueDeathRule, when important characters take longer to die.

* ''Film/ReservoirDogs'': Mr. Orange gets shot early on and spends the rest of his screen time (barring flashbacks) dying in agony until he's finally shot again near the end. [[spoiler: This is deliberate, since he's TheMole, and desperately hoping for the sting operation he's a part of to go successfully.]]

Related to LongestPregnancyEver, another condition that lasts longer than it should. Might overlap with YourDaysAreNumbered, which is when a character knows they'll die. Contrast KillHimAlready and GetItOverWith, when TheHero stands over a defeated enemy, respectively causing other people or the villain to urge her to just eliminate the threat permanently.

* ''Art/{{Death of Dido}}'': Inspired by Virgil's ''Literature/{{Aeneid}}'', Creator/{{Guercino}} captures the prolonged, tragic, and epic death of Queen Dido by impalement on an immolation pyre. Her subjects are mourning her, her sister Anna is inconsolable, her lover Aeneas' leaving ship can be seen in the distance, and Goddess Juno is compassionately releasing the queen's soul from her suffering.

* ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'': {{Parodied}}, like everything else. Quoth [[GrandeDame Lady Bracknell]] about Algernon's "sick friend" Bunbury --who Algernon made up as an excuse to avoid unwanted social engagements, and has been using as an excuse for years. "I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he is going to live or to die. This shilly-shallying with the question is absurd."

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'': Solid Snake starts off already rapidly aging and coughing, proceeds to get the shit kicked out of him at the end of every mission, gets fried, shot, blown up, beaten, injected repeatedly for self-medication, and doesn't quit smoking. It's admirable how much punishment he can take, but Creator/HideoKojima is definitely punishing Snake in as many ways as humanly possible.

* ''Literature/{{Aeneid}}'': In Virgil's version, Queen Dido decides to commit suicide for having betrayed her late husband's memory by falling in love with Aeneas. She recruits her sister Anna's help in building a pyre under the pretense of getting rid of everything that reminds her of her lover. Dido lies down in the pyre but gets impaled by one of Aeneas' swords before she can even immolate herself. Anna rushes to her side and embraces her while everybody else mourns their dying queen. Then, Goddess Juno is sent to release Dido's spirit from her suffering in a dramatic scene. On top of that, Aeneas glimpses the glow of Dido's funeral pyre from afar as he's shipping off Cartague. Thus making this one OlderThanFeudalism.

%%* ''Literature/{{Aeneid}}'': Dido in Virgil's, making this one OlderThanFeudalism.

You know how some character has been sick for ages and ages and ages, and how their death will be dragged out for days/weeks/months/years, until by the time it finally happens, people are no longer shocked, or no longer even ''care''?

Yeah. This is KillHimAlready on a slow, unheroic scale, DelicateAndSickly taken to the ultimate conclusion. It's AlmostDeadGuy for a longer duration, with less usefulness. Generally manifests in some kind of SoapOperaDisease. Probably has something to do with DeathIsDramatic, CreatorBreakdown, or DownerEnding. Contrast LongestPregnancyEver for another condition that lasts longer than it should.

* UsefulNotes/Voudoun: {{Invoked}}. When slighted, the Marassa triplets will prolong illnesses and other conditions until they receive a proper apology.

* Hospitals occasionally have to deal with these sorts of people in the real world - continually sick with some unknown illness which will almost certainly kill them (or believing themselves to be so). The term used for such unfortunate figures is GOMER - Get Out of My Emergency Room.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Hoster Tully from lasts more than two books before succumbing --and he spends all of his appearances delirious from painkillers. In a possible acknowledgment of this, by the time he dies, his daughter has become inured enough to death that she barely reacts either.

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%%* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Aunt May.